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Highly reflective fiber Bragg gratings written through a vinyl ether fiber coating

R.P. Espindola, R. M. Atkins, N.P. Wang, Debra A. Simoff, Mark A. Paczkowski, Robert S. Windeler, D. L. Brownlow, D. S. Shenk, P. A. Glodis, T.A. Strasser,

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1999 · 25 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Highly reflective fiber Bragg gratings (reflectivity >99.99%, -45 dB in transmission) have been written through a 55-μm-thick novel polymer fiber coating in a low (5 mole%) germania-doped optical fiber. The coating is based on vinyl ether chemistry using a cationic photoinitiator."

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Highly reflective fiber Bragg gratings written through a vinyl ether fiber coating

R.P. Espindola, R. M. Atkins, N.P. Wang et al. · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1999 · 25 citations

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